Nerfed TT drops?

__Kikyo__ - Lost City wrote: »

Ever since the latest patch.I noticed the drops in TT are worse.I do 3-1 on med mode and I get one or two green mats a run or none.sacred mother orb boss drops no green mats every run.Im lucky if I get one green mat.Sorcer hands used to drop about 2-4 mats.It now drops zero or one green mat.I do alot of TT runs as in I no life TT.Its how I make money in this game.No its not my luck its the ****ing droprate and its bad.Im sure any answer will be you have bad luck or they never nerfed the droprate.But I dont believe it.Just throwing out my nerd rage. bye :P

I've had an unusual amount of trouble with 3-1 as well lately. Im dead serious...10 runs and not a single green drop from snake boss. I've been doing this HH for weeks for the Scared Mothers Aura and I've only managed 1 (and that dropped on a squad a friend has started).

I know we don't want to hear it, but I honestly think its luck. We can have a pity party for ourselves b:cry

18 2-3 runs in a row without a gold drop from AE ....b:angry
Still making cions in soloing it cause of antennas.
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I've done 2x 3-2 squad and one 3-3 squad in the past few days. 3-2 came out more profitable material wise with 1 gold, unless you count the Twilight Scepter that dropped in 3-3. 7 fairy boxes in 3-2, 21 in 3-3. 3-3 solo mode on the other hand, the DQ items and coin drops from mobs were worth more than what the bosses dropped.

When people say they solo tt, but are fighting squad mode bosses, i presume they opened the tt in squad mode, and cleared it themselves? Or they open the solo mode, and some squad bosses are hanging around? Slightly confused, never did solo mode, was wondering.

Drops seem normal to me. I get 3~7 fairy boxes per run.

Knownase - Heavens Tear wrote: »

LOL, I remember soloing AE during 2x, did it about 15 times total, no gold mat.

After 2x, solo'd AE again, and it dropped a gold mat a few times.

.........luck is cruel. b:cry

^ this.

My girlfriend and I have ran about 15 TT 3-1's in the past four days. We've made about a 15mil profit each, plenty of green mats, and about... 6 Gold mats.

Personally I think they nerfed the drop rate to prevent people making money like they seem to do with anything that enables players to make cash without using real money. I used to run alot of TT have always really liked doing so and used to make pretty good money doing so. Now the drops are so poor I really dont think its worth the time and effort to do it so as an old school player thats run TT for along time the rate has defo been altered

Bellarie - Raging Tide wrote: »

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I also noticed an increase in the strength of the bosses of some instances. I did a 59 for a fac buddy two days ago and the bosses were doing over twice the damage to my herc that they use to do.

Strength of bosses at bh59 is random every time.

Sometimes Zimo hit my Wizard about 600 in average, sometimes 1300.

It was always so.

Someone at PWI has done a few spreadsheets that tell them that in the limited time the franchise has left before two major new MMO's blow them out of the water, the most profitable thing to do is force the cash shoppers to pay a premium for everything. This means player farmed items are no longer desirable, hence drop rates get nerfed to oblivion.

brazenbusboy wrote: »

Someone at PWI has done a few spreadsheets that tell them that in the limited time the franchise has left before two major new MMO's blow them out of the water, the most profitable thing to do is force the cash shoppers to pay a premium for everything. This means player farmed items are no longer desirable, hence drop rates get nerfed to oblivion.

I'm playing on DW since server opened. This is just a new char.
I farmed a lot of stuff since 2009, and yeah, drops have been nerfed. Not only in TT, in open world too. GMs say it's not true? Bullshyt!!!!!!!!!!!!. GMs don't have any idea what they are doing or what's happening ingame anyway. The drop rates have been slowly decreased Which is normal if you think about it. More high lvls that can farm means a lot of independent money makers. PWI doesnlike f2p, they do not make money out of that. They need you to pay for stuff, and all their business model is based on the impatience of the people that want something and want it today. Drop rates didn’t matter 2.5 years ago too much, because there were a handful of squads doing TT 3-x because, well, it took many many hours to complete and highest grade weapons at that time were TT90 green with maybe a +3 to +5 refine in the best case scenario. Go now in TT 2-x and try to do it with TT90 green wep/gear, see what a struggle that is. So, obviously, drop rates were better. 5 aps , and 5 aps sins especially broke the game on farming side. We can do as many runs as we want, wherever we want in a fraction of the time it takes a team to do it. Go farm books in SoT with a squad of non aps and time it. I can do it in 10-15 min max. Wanna compare times? This is why PWI had to reduce drops, or items ingame would have got so cheap that everyone would have been full geared to their desire. They cannot allow that. They need to make money to survive.

And they have about 6 months left until they die. And no, this is not another “the game is dead” hollow statement. There are better and more balanced (at least on paper) games coming out early next year and I , as well as a lot others that I know, will go to those games as soon as they launch. For the hardcore cash shoppers/MMO aficionados those will be the games where boosting their e-peen will mean something. No one will care about you being godly in PWI when the new mechanics and combat will be so much more complex and skill demanding in G u ild Wars or Ter.a.

This game is not dead and won’t die from packs, r9 or other ****. But it will be KO dead cold by at least the 2 names above.